If I Can Tell You The Story

In A Given Scene I May Know Nothing More Than How It's Supposed To End, Most Of The Time Not Even That. Scenes Are Improvised. A Character Does Or Says Something, And With As Much Spontaneity And Schizophrenia As I Can Muster, Another Character Responds. In This Way, Everything I Write Is Spontaneous Chain Reaction And I'm Running Around Playing Leapfrog In My Brain Trying To "be" All My People.

The Bigger The Issue, The Smaller You Write. Remember That. You Don't Write About The Horrors Of War. No. You Write About A Kid's Burnt Socks Lying On The Road. You Pick The Smallest Manageable Part Of The Big Thing, And You Work Off The Resonance.

I Write Because I Write - As Anyone In The Arts Does. You're A Painter Because You Feel You Have No Choice But To Paint. You're A Writer Because This Is What You Do.

I Think The Definition Of An Artist Is Not Necessarily Tied Into Excellence Or Talent; An Artist Is Somebody Who, If You Took Away Their Freedom To Make Art, Would Lose Their Mind.

You Can't Take A Character Anywhere They Don't Expect The Character To Go. But Within Those Confines Is Where Creativity Lies